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March 4, 2011

Red Sox 5, Yankees 3

Eammonn Portice retired Ramiro Pena on a grounder to second with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, after Tony Pena Jr. had a bit of a meltdown: single, HBP, wild pitch, single, K, F7, walk, walk.

Daniel Nava's single got Boston on the board in the sixth. Juan Carlos Linraes singled in a run with two outs in the seventh, and Oscar Tejada hit a two-run triple.

Linares, Tejada, Jose Iglesias, and Drew Sutton each had two hits. Linares scored twice, and Tejada knocked in three.

Clay Buchholz pitched three innings, allowing one hit and walking two, with two strikeouts.

Tonight: The first of two prequels before what could be as many as 25 games against the Yankees this season.

Worth noting maybe: I sat here listening to very scratchy AM radio feed, wondering why in hell MLB had not automatically renewed my audio subscription Mar 1. Come to find out, my credit card details (unchanged in fact) no longer worked, so, fine, I tried buying GD audio as a new subscriber with no luck--couldn't get the interface to allow me to 'Buy Now'--not with either credit card.